The reader's favorite posts on Ohdeedoh this week included a gorgeous nursing ring, families squeezing into apartments, Sanrio paper crafts, and cardboard kitchens.
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2007 Color Contest Winner: Sam's Chocolate Crash Pad
Here at Ohdeedoh, we know that the kids' room is often the most colorful room in the house - and since the grown-ups at Apartment Therapy are showi...
It's easy to see products in stores or design concepts on blogs and admire them, but it's sometimes harder to see how they'll work in a home. Cookie magazine has put together a show house for the m...
We wrote about IKEA's Spoka Ghost Light before. It's a great night light for the nursery, just enough but not too much to get the diaper changed. We were reminded of it again and when we spotted it ...
At first glance, we thought the Teddy Lamp from Suck UK was kind of cute. Then we looked at it from another angle......
As with all the entries in this year's Fall Colors Contest, we keep being wowed by the great use of color. Brave choices produce fun results. We spied Marita & Jens' entry among the participants......
We're glad to see major retailers offering up green choices. While shopping the Land of Nod site for new goodies and ideas, these cardboard chairs jumped out at us....
This interactive globe has 181 detachable velcro pieces -- national costumes, native animals and the like -- that will help teach your kids about the rest of the world. Made from cloth, the inflatable...
Here's a less literal, alternative alphabet print for someone who wants to make a nod to the abc's without necessarily using the art as a teaching tool.
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We are continually blown away by the creativity and ingenuity of our readers, and the recent run of homemade toy kitchens we've featured here is a case in point. Virginia wrote in to share pictures of...
As seen on our site, tree houses are no longer the simple rooms of the past. They have certainly evolved into so much more. While recently perusing the Point Click Home Web site, we found a collecti...
Babynaming is one of those can't-please-everybody propositions. Whether you choose to go traditional or creative, sentimental or futuristic, you can't avoid other people's (generally unsolicited) opin...
It's Friday, and today's Scavenger has some cool finds for you. Yes, YOU! We have a Pottery Barn Catalina toddler bed, a new Serta Changing Pad, a Baby Planet Eden Bassinet and more from such fine ...
When was the last time you received an unexpected, lovely surprise gift from a complete stranger? The Toy Society is spreading smiles, joy and a sense that wonderful things can happen anytime. Isn...
The key to successful outings with young kids is organization. Pack a variety of toys and snacks to get you to your destination. We like this bag for that purpose. Originally intended as a children...
This is our favorite kind of hack: one that doesn't involve a hammer, saw, or screwdriver. Andy wrote in to Ikea Hacker about his nifty discovery that the Pax wardrobe is compatible with the Trofast b...
A party with a house full of children can be downright scary -- and we're not even talking about the Halloween factor, either. If you're brave enough to host a kids' halloween party, we love the grea...
Ohdeedoh Reader Kristen needs your help. She wrote and asked us the following: There is a lot of love on Apartment Therapy for FLOR (and also some hate), but I think we're ready to take the plunge....
Picnic season is eluding us, but here's a kid-sized picnic table that can make outdoor lunches fun, or be brought indoors and used as a place to draw or play when the mercury drops.......
So, you think modern parents are overprotective? Check out this "snake-proof" baby crib from the early 1900s.
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Jackson Calder turned ONE yesterday and must be counting down the minutes until he tries his first taste of cake at his birthday bash this weekend.
Happy birthday and happy cake, Jackson!
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Crisp, contemporary, and autumnal. Stripes always get the nod in our book, but -- given the season -- stripes that incorporate brown and orange help this reversible duvet cover score extra points. ...
With Halloween only a few weeks away, we thought it would be a good idea to round up some of past Halloween posts in case you were looking for some spooky inspiration. With everything from candy alte...
We always have one eye open for new items that are easy on the environment as well as being well-made enough that they serve as good long-term furniture investments (which retain their Craigslist cach...
This is our favorite kind of email to get from readers. Hanh in Cambridge, MA devised a cute, clever and inexpensive play kitchen using a few items from Ikea. We're totally excited about it!
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This just made our shopping list for our next trip to IKEA. You can fill-up your child's play kitchen with these heavy duty porcelain dishes in pretty pastels....
We've always loved that scene in Woody Allen's Manhattan Hannah and Her Sisters when a rock star comes to call on the curmudgeonly painter played by Max von Sydow, and enrages him by asking if he has ...
Vintage Tennis Shoe Chandelier, with red and white polka dotted shades. Info, voting and price, below the link....
These animal mugs have been a favorite in our house for a long time. We picked them up at our local Japanese gift shop, along with matching plates and bowls, but we didn't want to write about them un...
Swedish company Little Red Stuga's charming poufs for kids include the Dream Bag, above, which unfolds into a lotus flower in yellow, pink or turquoise; or the knitted pouf Kebnekaise (after the jump)...
A home cooked meal - cooked by somebody else - after the arrival of a baby is like manna from heaven. If you're lucky enough to have a support system of friends, family and neighbors to bring you f...
Look who's turning SIX! We hope there's lots of hoopla around your birthday, Vivian!
Vivian loves all things girly. Princesses, dress-up and Barbies are her play. She's also tough, she's in TaeK...
You know that feeling when you see a toy and you can tell right away that you would have adored it yourself when you were little? That's the feeling we get when we look at the Book Buggee by P'Kolino....
What is your home office like? Alice Bradley, of Finslippy, offers us a glimpse of hers in the post Brief Bewildering Tour of Where I Spend Most of My Day.
What else is happening in the Parenting Blo...
These kind of make our birthday-party attempts at making balloon weiner dogs look a little sad, but we'll get over it. Artist Jason Hackenwerth's massive balloon installations have been displayed in N...
We don't need a dresser/changing table and we don't live in Dallas, but we're still tempted by this Argington Picchu piece. The Scavenger dug deep in Chicago and New York as well to bring you furni...
We once found, stashed in our mother's desk, a pre-school report card in which the teacher noted that we were the only student in the class who didn't know how to use scissors. We imagine Elsa Mora...
We always look forward to the cake. Not just eating it, but buying it, designing it, baking it, whatever we decide to do that year. This homemade construction zone birthday cake is one we're going t...
We've used cool online tools to generate words using photos of found objects, but we always wished we could create prints -- say, of our kids' names -- to take away and hang on our walls. Now, thanks ...
Reader Stefania sent us an e-mail: "My son (who is 14) is dying to paint his room black. While I totally believe in creative freedom, I'm really not digging the idea of having a room with black walls...
Welcome Dexter! Mom and Dad are proud parents and couldn't wait to introduce you to your Ohdeedoh friends.
Who's Dexter? Bbrand spanking new bundle of fun and chubb. He came into the world with f...
In the ever-specialized world of decorating options for little ones, here comes vinyl flooring made especially for kids......
Have you been fielding tough questions from your kids about the economic crisis? Whether they've heard about it on the news or picked up on it from your conversations, chances are they're aware tha...
Don't let the low-key photo fool you - Mungo will be unleashing all his spirit and energy today to celebrate his FIRST birthday!
This is an unusually contemplative photo--Mungo is generally a hap...
Pauline wrote in with a question that we're sure almost all of us have agonized over at some point:
I’m planning a nursery and would like to find a comfortable rocking chair (not a glider). I like ...
When we were 5, we had a room just like this -- only it wasn't a closet, it was the entry hallway. In a space about 4 feet by 6 feet, our bed, one dresser and a whole lot of shelves were stuffed in a...
Whether or not yesterday was a holiday for you, we hope you're feeling relaxed and refreshed and ready for another week of autumnal good times here at Ohdeedoh. As we lurch, Quasimodo-like, toward Hal...
We love kids' room that appear effortless, lived in and still beautiful. And we're always curious to peek inside the homes of interior designers. So we couldn't resist a visit to Cookie's Nesting ...
Kid's chairs come in all shapes and sizes, but there's something extra-appealing about a mini club chair that allows kids to sink in and relax in a chair designed to fit them while reading or hanging ...
We came across these numbers nesting boxes the other day when we were exploring West Elm's numbers rug and thought they'd be perfect for a child's room or to wrangle toys and gear in the living room...
Amelia Rachel had her very FIRST birthday over the weekend! Her mom is planning a brunch to celebrate next weekend with a "Poodle in Paris" theme - what fun!! Happy Birthday, Amelia!
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Happy Monday! We're taking it slow today, but the Scavenger is still working hard for you. Looking for a Moby wrap, a ginormous Melissa and Doug T-Rex or a Clean N' Comfy Shopping Cart Cover? We h...
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